Our 111th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Applications & Business
Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
Google To Release ChatGPT-like Bot Named Bard
Alphabet Stock Loses $100 Billion After New AI Chatbot Gives Wrong Answer In Ad
Quora opens its new AI chat ... Show More
Jan 7
#230 - 2025 Retrospective, Nvidia buys Groq, GLM 4.7, METR
Our 230th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 01/02/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and com ... Show More
1h 38m
Jul 2024
Google’s talks to buy Wiz, and the gap between AI spending and AI revenue
On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan explored Google’s reported talks to acquire Wiz, a cloud security company, for around $23 billion. Wiz provides an “all-in-one approach to cloud security,” pulling data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and others ... Show More
8m 1s
Aug 2025
EP 586: OpenAI releases GPT-5 in ChatGPT, Google’s impressive Genie 3 and more AI News That Matters
<p>OpenAI released GPT-5, and it's.... polarizing?<br/><br/>Google dropped something kinda outta this world.<br/><br/>And Anthropic picked a bad week to drop a new model.<br/><br/>This week was one of the busiest in AI of the year. If you missed anything, this is your one-st ... Show More
53m 23s
Feb 2025
The high stakes for AI Alexa
AI will fix everything, right? In this episode, friend of The Verge (and Waveform co-host) David Imel joins Nilay and David to talk all about Alexa Plus, and the AI-powered voice assistant Amazon thinks can do everything from turn on your lights to order your friend an Uber. The ... Show More
1h 56m
Dec 2024
World's First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery, DeepMind's Genie 2, and Amazon's AI Mega-Computer
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of Discover Daily, we explore groundbreaking developments in battery technology as researchers from the University of Bristol and UK Atomic Energy Authority unveil a revolutionary diamond-encased battery powe ... Show More
9m 19s
Aug 2025
Will AI make humans extinct? | Yoshua Bengio
<p>Yoshua Bengio — the world's most-cited computer scientist and a "godfather" of artificial intelligence — is deadly concerned about the current trajectory of the technology. As AI models race toward full-blown agency, Bengio warns that they've already learned to deceive, cheat, ... Show More
15m 42s
Apr 2025
#144: ChatGPT’s New Memory, Shopify CEO’s Leaked “AI First” Memo, Google Cloud Next Releases, o3 and o4-mini Coming Soon & Llama 4’s Rocky Launch
Returning from Google Cloud Next, Paul and Mike are back with some major AI updates. They kick things off with ChatGPT’s new memory feature and unpack what that means for you. Then it’s onto Shopify’s leaked memo: no new hires until AI proves it can’t do the job. Databox takes th ... Show More
1h 31m